Working Group 4

Brussels, 22 April 2013

Carlo Scollo Lavizzari, legal counsel, STM

Text and Data MiningLicenses for Europe

sample licence clause for

Text and Data Mining (TDM)

• publishing sector proposal

• subscribed copyright-protected

works and materials

• Not stand-alone; part of an existing

license or subscription agreement

between a publisher and an

institution

subscribed

Non-subscribed

contains the following core clauses:

• clause 1 – use of Content (non commercial research)

• clause 2 – prohibited use of Content

• clause 3 – security, rights, formats, mechanisms

Content• access, download, extract, index Content; locally load &

normalise Content for projects

Output

• include Output in research papers; present Output within limits on open web

Communication

• communicate results for non-commercial objectives and

without substituting publishers’ products or data sets.

clause 1

clause 2

Content

• translate or modify original Content

• permit 3rd party harvesting Content

• reproduce/retain systematically or redistribute Content

• extract or use commercially

Derivatives, rights information, downloading • no derivatives that compete with publishers’

products/services

Other

• tamper with rights information or meta data

• systematic whole-sale downloading by robots, spiders

clause 3

• agree on method of access (API)

• keep some security and Content behind firewall

• comply with data protection

• scheduling to avoid system crash

• disclaimer – Content used «as is» at miner’s risk

discussion

• comments / questions?

• volunteers for work ahead?